Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position to have it changed or to mention the mistake to those who might. Imagine the countless distinguished foreign visitors who have been escorted in honor through the gates of the Academy, and whose second alphabet is heraldry. The permanent twinkle that possessed Papa Joffre's eye as he returned to New York down the Hudson at last finds explanation in the "goods" he had on General Pershing and his fellow graduates...
...Such a feeling of injustice is increased by the prison system which rests on retaliation, the principle of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. It is, the absolute foundation of our criminal law. But no court of law can weigh a man's soul. You have no right to punish a criminal, but you should put him away if he is a danger to organized society...
...pants has been unhappily revived by an esteemed contemporary, the Harvard CRIMSON. We had thought this subject out of the way and disposed of, instead of which it more than smoulders. Let us recite the facts in orderly fashion certain Princetonians waited on President Coolidge, who with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received the chaff in the spirit...
...Page 18 of your issue for Jan. 19, under heading RELIGION, subtitle "A Needle's Eye," after a recital of recent events in the Rockefeller family, you say (Page 18, foot of first column), "The parable is one that has often been quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle." And further on, middle of next column, you repeat: "Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich...
...evidently are not. For the text reads (Mark x:25), "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom...